Parking Available Station code NCB Phone 091662 55911 Tracks 8 | Status Functioning Opened 1966 Platforms in use 5 | |
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Location Cooch Behar, Cooch Behar, West Bengal
India Operated by Northeast Frontier Railway Line(s) Barauni-Guwahati Line
Alipurduar-Bamanhat branch line Address New Cooch Behar, Gosanimari, Cooch Behar, West Bengal 736179 Similar New Alipurduar railway st, New Bongaigaon Junction r, New Jalpaiguri Junction r, Kamakhya Junction railway st, Kishanganj railway station | ||
New Cooch Behar is a station on the Barauni-Guwahati Line of Northeast Frontier Railway. It serves Cooch Behar city in Cooch Behar district in the Indian state of West Bengal.
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History
Cooch Behar had its first railway when Cooch Behar State Railway constructed the narrow gauge Geetaldaha-Jainti line in 1901. It was subsequently on the metre gauge Alipurduar-Bamanhat-Golokganj line. When Assam Link Project constructed the link through North Bengal, it used the longer New Jalpaiguri-Alipurduar-Samuktala Road Line.
New Cooch Behar station came up when the broad gauge New Jalpaiguri-New Bongaigaon section of Barauni-Guwahati Line was laid in 1966.
New Cooch Behar-Golokganj
Before partition there was a railway link from Cooch Behar to Dhubri via Gitaldaha and Golokganj. Some part of this route passed through Bangladesh, between Bamanhat and Golokganj. There were two stations Pateswari and Sonahat which were in Bangladesh, these functioned even after partition. However, the collapse of the rail-cum-road bridge over the Gadadhar in the seventies ended that link. Now the bridge has been rebuilt and a new broad gauge track has been laid, under New Maynaguri-Jogighopa Rail Project, via Tufangunj and Boxirhat, entirely through Indian territory. Dhubri-New Jalpaiguri Inter-city Express via Cooch Behar was introduced in February 2012.
Railway mail service
New Cooch Behar railway station has a working TMO(Transit Mail Office) on the PF#1 which works from 09.00-1900. This TMO is under direct supervision of SRO Alipurduar or HRO Siliguri under O/o The SRM RMS 'SG' Div.The Sorting Mail branch of I class regd/unregd Mails still is in Alipurduar RMS.New Coochbehar TMO primarily accepts Mail directly closed by NSH Siliguri for Coochbehar H.O.,Dinhata S.O.,Mathabhanga S.O.,Toofanganj S.O..etc. delivery post offices under SSPO Coochbehar Div.These Mails primarily arrive by SG-34 OUT(Kamrup Exp),SG-36 OUT(North East Exp), SG-13 OUT(Siliguri Jn APDJ Dinhata DEMU) & GH-15 IN(Brahmaputra Mail). So the working of this TMO largely depends on the arrival of the respective trains. References